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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has emphasised that parents and guardians remain banned from visiting learners at boarding schools as COVID-19 prevention protocols remain in place.<\/p>\n

The ban was imposed in 2021 during which the Government also reduced intakes at boarding schools as a preventative measure to allow learners to learn and live in a safe environment where social distancing was possible.<\/p>\n

Speaking in a telephone interview with The Sunday News yesterday the Ministry\u2019s director of communications and advocacy, Mr Taungana Ndoro emphasised that the ban was still effective. He said:<\/p>\n

COVID-19 protocols are still in place in our schools. We follow national COVID-19 guidelines.<\/p>\n

His remarks come as schools are set to open on Monday 09 January for the first term of 2023.<\/p>\n

In 2021, schools were prohibited from taking additional learners outside the permissible numbers in a bid to contain the situation.<\/p>\n

Cabinet last year opened schools in compliance with the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) of the Prevention and Management of COVID-19 as well as other Influenza-like illnesses.<\/p>\n

The SOPs are minimum terms of operation that are set to ensure schools operate in a safe environment without risking a spike in new infections.<\/p>\n

Other measures:<\/p>\n

i). Handshakes, hugs and sharing of desks were prohibited and still remain prohibited in schools while classroom occupancy was reduced to 35 learners per classroom.<\/p>\n

ii). Learners have been sanitising as they enter the premises of their schools and masking up to ensure there is no spread of the virus.<\/p>\n

Health officials in the country have been calling on people to remain vigilant as fresh cases of the pandemic continue to be recorded.<\/p>\n

A new variant of the COVID-19 virus, XBB, which is a sub-lineage of the Omicron variant has been detected in more than 80 countries with Botswana having detected cases towards the end of last year.<\/p>\n

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